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The first stage of OPEN’s Tank Shanghai project has reached completion, with the eastern and southern parklands being inaugurated and opened to the public along with the completion of the riverside Project Space. On June 29th the riverside Project Space, which was rebuilt on the site of the old oil tank site’s firefighting pump room, opened its inaugural exhibition “I Do (Not) Want To be Part of Your Celebration” with a summer evening gala.

OPEN’s Tsinghua Ocean Center in Shenzhen is recently completed after five years’ time from design to construction. Located at the eastern end of Tsinghua graduate school campus in Shenzhen Xili University Town, it was designed for the newly established deep-ocean research base of Tsinghua University. Science, Humanity and Nature are the three main themes of the design. While accomplishing all the lab and office functions, abundant social spaces were injected into this energetic ‘vertical campus’.

OPEN’s Ocean Center (The Deep Ocean Innovation Base of Tsinghua University Graduate School at Shenzhen) topped out on June 15th, 2015.

The Ocean Center is made up of 5 leading research centers of deep ocean science in China. The 60 meters-high-building is standing on the eastern end of the grand axis of the campus, right next to the main gate. OPEN’s “vertical campus” design strategy will make the building not only be a new type of research labs with high efficiency, but also a dynamic social energizer on the end of the grand axis of the campus.

The secretary and dean of Tsinghua University Graduate School at Shenzhen, the deputy director of Public Works Bureau, the general manager of Contractor Huashi, the leaders of Local Design Institute iBR, the leaders of supervising units and Li Hu, the principal architect of OPEN, attended the topping-out ceremony at 10am on June 15th. Ocean center is expected to be completed in 2016.

Beijing No.4 High School Fangshan Campus designed by OPEN Architecture has been completed and held its opening ceremony on Aug. 31st, 2014, four years after OPEN won the design competition in 2010, for this new campus of total building area of over 50,000sqms for 36 classes of students.